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ray floret

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ray floret, flower
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of the small strap-shaped flowers in the flower head of certain composite plants, such as the daisy Compare disc floret
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Noun1.ray floretray floret - small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower
ray flower
blossom, flower, bloom - reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
flower head - a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae


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